Some random examples of self-regularion in nature. Our obesity: majority of humankind history we were starving, so our appetite tends to require more food than we actually need now in order to have some spare calories. When a starvation starts then our metabolism slows down to increase our chances to survive. In a chronic starvation the response is to increase longevity so the species has a chance to go throuhg "7 leans years" and to survive individually (as you know, there are some antagonistic goals between individual survival and survival of a species as a whole). Another reaction to starvation or excessive exercising in females is stopping menstrual cycles (until the better times when a woman has a good enough nutrition to bear a child). When a female partner is much older than a male then a chance of having a daughter is higher to compensate for the assumed shortage of females, and vice versa– if a male is much older then the chance to have a son is higher. Similar sense makes the fact that if the child is conceived after prolonged period of abstinence, then the nature assumes females are in shortage and there is higher chance to conceive a girl. By the same token, if a child conceived during unprotected sex after several intercourses with condoms, then the exhausted man more likely to father a son. We can't be sure of the ways Mother Nature self-regulates such things, but the possible explanation is that even at the stage of spermatozoa female ones have a higher chances of survival due to the presense of 2 X-chromosomes with a backup if one is defective, so after a period of abstinence higher %% of sperm cells will be females. Humans typically prefer a thermally processed food over the raw because those who liked it raw had a higher chance to perish from parasites and germs. Humans get somnolent when the conditions endanger them during their potential reids: when it's dark and stronger and better equipped predators are hunting; when the stomach is full and we can't run fast enough; when we are ill, thus, less likely to escape the predators; when there's bad wheather and we can get pneumonia or slip over the slippery surface while trying to avoid a predator or chasing a prey. Social events might also affect the process of natural selection. For example, after the French Revolution when totalitarian lefties in the name of brotherhood and freedom set up fire of the wars all around of Europe, then the average height of French dropped for almost 10 inches. The similar effect had a Left communist government in North Korea: due to chronic starvation North Koreans now are almost 10 inches shorter than South Koreans. The lefties are always enemies of their own countries and their own people. Some germs replicate every 20 minutes, hence, human's life is programmed to last until our children grow enough to reproduced themselves in the eternal competition of species for survival: the germs adapt to our changing biology, we adapt our defense systems to their ever-changing ways of perfecting their offense and assault means. If we live too long then we already don't participate in the natural selection and survival improvement of the species while we still consume the limited resources that would be available to the next self-improving generation.
So, the natural course of events may be painfully slow and cumbersome, but it is the only way to optimize the outcome.
VI. State & bureaucracy as necessary evil; Government as the biggest problem of any given people, country or nation . The role of the feedback loop at the different levels of a society
P. J. O'Rourke: in "Parliament of whores": To call something public is to define it as dirty, insufficient and hazardous. The ultimate paradigm of social spending is the public restroom". I would also add public "servants" in Washington, DC, failing public schools and piblic women. What career politicians do? They "love their country" for money (and they decide themselves how much their "services" worth) taken by them out of our pockets . What do you call a person who loves for money? That is correct, a whore.
But let's first make case for bureaucracy in general and for government in particular. Do we need them? If yes– how much?Unfortunately, yes, we need some-very little though. Why? Because of the human nature, which is agressive, selfish, violent, lazy and because all human activities follow the path of least resistance. The human horde is amorphous like an amoeba, so it needs some external shell, a form, a membrane, a skin, a vessel to keep the content in a stable shape. Here's another analogy: imagine a bunch of cells combined in a slug that slowly crowls on a stone. The slug is exposed to all kind of environmental hazards and enemies– insects, birds, germs. Imagine, the slug hired a shell to protect itself and to contain it in a defined shape. Looks like the slug turned into a snail. All good and well? Now, imagine the shell has a mind on its own, as our "public servants" in Washington, DC do. The shell starts sucking powers, blood and the substance from the slug in order to increase to size and weight of the shell and it keeps doing so until poor anemic slug collapses and dies under the weight of the shell. Welcome to Greece, then to the rest of the Europe, then to the US. Guess, how much unfunded liabilities all the layers of the US government have? You think, $14 trillion? Think twice. About 10 times more! Hard to imagine? Read "The other national debt" by Kevin D. Williamson. And main culprits are the socialist labor unions at the municipal and state levels that use blackmail of the “collective bargaining” to unearned money and benefits, paid from you pocked, and they don’t care that they push the whole country into the abyss of bancruptcy. If the population is mature enough to follow unwritten rules of civilized behavior, the wisdom of ages, customs, religious traditions and 10 Commandments, if they have a sense of the community, then bad thing of any noticeble magnitude are unlikely to happen. It is in the best interests of everyone to live in a community without fear, where you don't have to look all the time behind your shoulder.
What happens when there is a blackout in the rural area populated mainly by the decent conservatives, who "cling to their guns and religion"? Actually, nothing! Just regular life! Well, may be a birth rate will slightly go up. Hard-working conservative people keep working and living as usual, police or not, government or not. On other hand, if the masses have no ethic code, no social fabric ties, no personal relationships with their neighborgs, only the deep rooted sense of their entitlements to the things they didn't earn (such is the case in the ruled by the Democrats socialist states and cities,for example, New Your City, Chicago, Washington, DC) – then they do need an external force to maintain the rule of law. The Democratic party is ruled by the lazy elitist rich trash and voted for by the lazy poor trash, as opposed to the hard-working conservatives, (whether poor rednecks